Xinhua News Agency, Kunming, October 11, Title: The Change of Zhaotong - The prefecture-level city with the largest number of poor people in the country has crossed the records
Xinhua News Agency reporter
Zhaotong, Yunnan, is located in the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain . 96.3% of its area is a mountainous area with severe rocky desertification, and people in the deep mountains have difficulty in survival. Among the more than 6 million people in the city, there were still 1.85 million poor people at the end of 2014. Ten of the 11 counties (cities, districts) were national-level poverty-stricken counties, and it was the prefecture-level city with the largest number of poor people in the country.
is located in Doushaguan, Yanjin County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, Wuchi Road, Guanhe Waterway, Neikun Railway, G247 Highway and G85 Yukun Expressway, five transportation lines of different periods are presented in an almost parallel manner (photo taken on August 10, drone photos). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Wenyao
From the past "the road is blocked, the industry is not prosperous, and the people's livelihood is difficult" to the construction of a new transportation hub, 360,000 people moved out of the mountains, and the rise of tens of billions of industries... In recent years, the local area has made every effort to fight poverty, and the Wumeng land has changed its appearance, from being closed and backward to leapfrog development.
The blocked land transforms into a new three-dimensional transportation hub
67-year-old Shao Guangqian, a villager in Yinchang Village, Dousha Town, Yanjin County, took a half-hour motorcycle and came to the foot of the mountain in front of Dousha Pass. He walked up the Wuqi Road for more than ten minutes and entered the ancient town to go to the market. While moving forward, five transportation routes from different periods, Wuchi Road, Guanhe Waterway, Neikun Railway, G247 Highway, and G85 Yukun Expressway, were presented in front of you in an almost parallel manner.
"In the past, the village was not connected to the road, so it took 4 hours to walk to Doushaguan Market. Now the road is open to the doorstep, and motorcycles can be reached in more than half an hour." Shao Guangqian witnessed the completion of railways, national highways and expressways next to the ancient road in decades. His children have taken the train and also took a car along the expressway to work.
traffic is blocked, restricting Zhaotong. The key projects of Zhaotong's "13th Five-Year Plan" comprehensive transportation planning have completed a total investment of nearly 140 billion yuan, and have received support from national poverty alleviation funds. The local government has also raised supporting investment. All 12 newly built expressways planned by
have been implemented, basically achieving highway access in counties and counties; the Chengdu-Guizhou High-speed Railway was completed and opened to traffic at the end of last year and the Chongqing-Kunming High-speed Railway started construction, and the Sui-Bi Railway will be completed in 2022; 9 routes directly to Beijing, Shanghai and other places have been opened; the "first port of the Yangtze River" Shuifu Port energy expansion project is steadily advancing, and after completion, it will become the largest inland port and a hub for multimodal transport in Yunnan... "Extremely unblocked" is gradually becoming "four connections".
"The difficulty is beyond imagination. It costs about 50 million yuan to build a kilometer of expressway in the plain, and at least 70 million yuan to be found in the Wumeng Mountains." Deng Ju, deputy county magistrate of Yanjin County, who is in charge of transportation, said that in order to improve people's lives, it is necessary to build it no matter how difficult it is.
Zhaotong City has 3.05 million rural laborers, of which 2.4 million people go out to work. The accessible highways and railways greatly facilitate the labor force's outing, which has become a huge advantage in overcoming the fortress of poverty.
After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, Zhaotong has carried out nucleic acid testing throughout the city since January 31, and will open a special train for migrant workers as early as February 22, and the government will organize the labor force to be transported out. Shen Shiguo, secretary of the Party Committee of Xiong County, , Zhenxiong County, said: "This year, we sent people to work. We sent cadres to pick them up by vans to farmers' homes, change cars at the newly built passenger transport center in the town, and then take buses and high-speed rail to the county town." The development of transportation not only facilitates migrant workers to earn money from other places, but also allows villagers to eat "local meals" more comfortably. In 2016, a highway was opened in Yina Village, Zhaotong City. Villager Li Shuncai took the opportunity to build a farmhouse, build activity rooms, fish ponds and gardens. Now he has a monthly income of tens of thousands of yuan, and has also led to employment for eight poor households in the village. Zhou Bangzhi, a 60-year-old villager in , Gonghe Village, is a major apple grower. The apples he grows are also marketed at home and abroad through well-connected roads. Before
, it took 6 hours to drive from Zhaoyang District to Zhenxiong County. After the expressway is repaired by the end of this year, the journey will be less than 2 hours. In the past, it was slow to travel from Zhenxiong County. Now, the road mileage in Zhenxiong County reaches 12,800 kilometers, and a three-dimensional comprehensive transportation network with internal connection and external connection has been initially formed. "Our future goal is to build a transportation hub for the joint departments of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces." said Zhai Yulong, secretary of Zhenxiong County Party Committee.
.36 million people moved out of the mountain city to make a home
On the wall of the village history museum of the relocation resettlement site in Lujia yard in Zhenxiong County, the old and new photos formed a sharp contrast: on one side is a peasant woman standing in front of a crooked thatched house in the mountains, and on the other side is she moving into a spacious and bright new building. The old man in the photo is 71-year-old Liu Shizhen. In August last year, her family of three moved from Dashan into the Lu family yard and became a community resident. Her changes are a portrayal of the local people moving out of poverty and cutting off the roots of poverty.
In 2018, based on the verification of the poverty situation of 1.29 million households, Zhaotong fully launched a new round of relocation and relocation, exploring models such as central urban resettlement, central town resettlement, and cross-county resettlement, and building 23 resettlement areas according to local conditions, of which 9 have more than 10,000 people. At present, more than 360,000 poor people in the city have moved into new homes, achieving a "leap" from deep mountains to towns.
is easy to enter the city, but difficult to take root. "The most difficult thing is employment." Yang Yalin, secretary of the Zhaotong Municipal Party Committee, said that it is necessary to improve the lives of relocated people through entrepreneurship, work and development of industries.
is located in Jing'an New District, Zhaotong City, Zhaotong City. It is a large resettlement area for poverty alleviation relocation. In the resettlement area square, 35-year-old relocated farmer Wang Shikun is selling milk tea. This is his first business start and he can earn up to 700 yuan a day. He said that there are tens of thousands of people living in the new district and there is a market. "In the past, when I went to Shenzhen to work for others, I worked for myself when I returned to my hometown," he said.
After planning, Zhaotong will build 5,318 vegetable greenhouses, 3,791 edible fungi greenhouses, 600,000 square meters of poverty alleviation workshops and 450,000 square meters of supporting commercial facilities around the resettlement area for poverty alleviation, providing 49,800 jobs and developing 11,800 public welfare jobs to help relocate people "stabilize and get rich."
When you have a job, you need a convenient life. "Now you don't have to worry about food and clothing, but you still have to help everyone become a city member." Wu Zhaokang, a 54-year-old relocated household, took the initiative to apply to serve as the "building director" of Jing'an New District, and served as a security guard, helping residents in recording roads, taking elevators, and recording homes.
has 827 buildings like Wu Zhaokang in each relocation new district. 44 new schools and 33 medical service institutions have been added to the resettlement area for poverty alleviation relocation in the city. 9 temporary party working committees (management committees), 111 party branches and 537 community cadres jointly built a comprehensive community service system.
"Where the masses move, the party organization will follow, and convenient services will extend." Yang Yalin said.
The rise of Wumeng land tens of billions of industries to help get rid of poverty
htmlOn August 18, a special video conference was held at the Zhaotong International Convention and Exhibition Center. Roman Coors, president of the World Potato Conference in Canada, announced that the World Potato Conference has awarded Zhaotong City the title of "World Potato Plateau Seed Potato Capital".At present, Zhaotong City has completed 2.6 million mu of potato planting. On the mountain at an altitude of 2,200 meters at the junction of Zhaoyang District and Yongshan County, you can see a high-standard demonstration base of 50,000 acres of potatoes, stretching and spreading, endlessly blooming with purple and white flowers.
htmlLuo Shifu, a 150-year-old large-scale grower, led the villagers to plant 2,200 acres of potatoes. He said that the local area adopted the "party branch + cooperative" model, with party members taking the lead, unifying standards, and centralized planting, and using the advanced technology and seeds provided by the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. "The potatoes grown in this way have a good taste, strong adaptability and disease resistance. They have been sold to Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangdong, as well as Southeast Asia and the Middle East."takes advantage of sufficient conditions in Rizhao, and the apple industry has also grown to 800,000 acres. The reporter saw in the orchard that the sign on the tree indicated which cooperative president was responsible, who was the technician, who was the fruit farmer, etc. It is also large-scale and unified planting.
bamboo planted to 3.83 million mu. This new industry can not only help farmers increase their income, but also protect the ecology of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River by returning farmland to forests. Wang Yingxue, a 60-year-old bamboo farmer in Guanfang Village, Wanchang Town, Zhenxiong County, had a low income before growing flue-cured tobacco and corn. In 2017, he responded to the government's call and planted nearly 50 acres of bamboo, with a yield of 600 kilograms of bamboo per mu, and a kilogram sold for more than 3 yuan. He said: "The government cares about us, and we must work hard. The people must get rich by their own labor."
"6 billion yuan" of potatoes, apples, bamboo, special breeding, Gastrodia elata, and peppercorns have become Zhaotong's industries with plateau characteristics.
As of the end of last year, the number of registered poor people in Zhaotong City dropped from 1.8507 million at the end of 2014 to 159,900, and the poverty incidence rate dropped from 34.8% to 3.4%. Dynamic monitoring in the first half of this year showed that all people who have not been lifted out of poverty have achieved "two no worries and three guarantees".
Zhaotong, known in history as "Wu Meng". Local people said that in the past, some people misinterpreted "Wu Meng" as darkness and blindness, and later changed to "Zhao Tong". Today, Zhaotong is becoming brighter and more accessible day by day. (Reporters Wang Changshan, Lin Bifeng, Peng Yunjia, Yao Junfang, Hua Hongli)
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